EP3665742B1 - Antenna module for a vehicle, and method for installing an antenna module - Google Patents

Antenna module for a vehicle, and method for installing an antenna module Download PDF

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EP3665742B1
EP3665742B1 EP18753178.5A EP18753178A EP3665742B1 EP 3665742 B1 EP3665742 B1 EP 3665742B1 EP 18753178 A EP18753178 A EP 18753178A EP 3665742 B1 EP3665742 B1 EP 3665742B1
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Juergen Fuhr
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/12—Supports; Mounting means
    • H01Q1/1207—Supports; Mounting means for fastening a rigid aerial element
    • H01Q1/1214—Supports; Mounting means for fastening a rigid aerial element through a wall
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/27—Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
    • H01Q1/32—Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles
    • H01Q1/325—Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the location of the antenna on the vehicle
    • H01Q1/3275—Adaptation for use in or on road or rail vehicles characterised by the location of the antenna on the vehicle mounted on a horizontal surface of the vehicle, e.g. on roof, hood, trunk

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  • the invention relates to an antenna module for a vehicle, and to a method for installing an antenna module as per the preamble of claim 1.
  • DE 10 2012 002 953 A1 has disclosed an antenna module for a vehicle, which antenna module comprises a first, upper assembly and a second, lower assembly, wherein the upper assembly comprises at least one electrical contact component and at least one guide means, wherein the lower assembly comprises at least one electrical counterpart contact component and at least one counterpart guide means, wherein the counterpart guide means of the lower assembly can be slid with a linear sliding-on movement in a sliding-on direction onto the guide means of the upper assembly into a pre-installation position such that the at least one contact component and the at least one counterpart contact component are situated opposite one another.
  • the lower assembly comprises an actuation means, wherein the at least one counterpart contact component is movable relative to the at least one contact component along a contacting direction, which is aligned orthogonally with respect to the sliding-on direction, out of the pre-installation position of the two assemblies by means of a contacting movement which can be generated by the counterpart guide means and by the actuation means, such that complete contacting of the at least one counterpart contact component and of the at least one contact component is effected.
  • an L-shaped installation movement which is made up of a linear movement for the alignment of the at least one counterpart contact component with the at least one contact component and a linear movement for the contacting of the at least one counterpart contact component and of the at least one contact component
  • one long movement path is replaced by two short, differently aligned movement paths, which are possible in a compact space.
  • a gentle joining-together process is possible, because it is clear to the technician when the manufacturing step of the orientation or alignment and when the manufacturing step of the sliding-on or contacting is taking place.
  • the manufacturing step of the sliding-on or contacting can always be performed with the required care, without the need for further auxiliary means for this purpose.
  • the lower assembly comprises a housing, wherein the counterpart guide means is guided on the housing, wherein the counterpart guide means is, in the pre-installation position, held in positively locking fashion in the upper assembly, and wherein the counterpart guide means is, in order to generate the contacting movement, movable by the actuation means on the housing of the lower assembly such that said counterpart guide means can be pulled into the lower housing and, here, owing to its positively locking retention, pulls the lower housing against the upper assembly.
  • the counterpart guide means which is movable by the actuation means relative to the housing of the lower assembly and which is preferably formed as a guide bolt, it is possible to realize contacting of the counterpart contact component with the contact component, without the need to exert an undefined pressure force on the upper assembly.
  • the counterpart guide means to comprise a head, by way of which said counterpart guide means can, similarly to a tongue-and-groove connection, be inserted into a rail guide of the upper assembly and displaced therein. In this way, the sliding-on movement is optimally predefined.
  • the lower assembly comprises a fixing pin, for the upper assembly to comprise a pin receptacle, wherein the fixing pin is, in the pre-installation position, situated in a release position and aligned with the pin receptacle such that the fixing pin can be moved into the pin receptacle of the upper assembly by means of a movement of the actuation means relative to the housing of the lower assembly.
  • the fixing pin is, in the pre-installation position, situated in a release position and aligned with the pin receptacle such that the fixing pin can be moved into the pin receptacle of the upper assembly by means of a movement of the actuation means relative to the housing of the lower assembly.
  • the actuation means to be formed as a clamping lever, wherein the clamping lever comprises a lever arm, a pivot axle, an eccentric head with a sliding surface which runs, in particular, eccentrically with respect to the pivot axle, and at least one eccentric peg, wherein the clamping lever is connected by way of its pivot axle pivotably to the counterpart guide means, wherein the clamping lever is guided by way of each eccentric peg in in each case one slotted guide formed on the housing of the lower structural unit, and wherein the clamping lever is supported by way of its eccentric pegs on the housing of the lower component such that the pivot axle of said clamping lever moves, during the turning-over of the lever arm, counter to a contacting direction, such that the counterpart guide means moves into the housing of the lower assembly.
  • the counterpart guide means is formed in particular as a mushroom-head bolt, wherein the fixing pin is guided on the counterpart guide means, and wherein the fixing pin is in particular guided in a passage bore of the counterpart guide means. In this way, a particularly compact construction of the lower assembly is realized.
  • the fixing pin is spring-loaded by a spring, wherein the spring pushes the fixing pin in the direction of the actuation means, and wherein the spring pushes the fixing pin in particular against at least one of the sliding surfaces of the clamping lever, and wherein the spring is in particular supported on the counterpart guide means. It is ensured in this way that, during the sliding-on movement, during which the clamping lever is in an open position, the fixing pin does not project in a disruptive manner out of the counterpart guide means and prevent a sliding-on action.
  • the method according to the invention for installing an antenna module in which method the antenna module comprises a first, upper assembly and a second, lower assembly, provides the following steps:
  • the method furthermore provides for the further sliding-on to be performed using an actuation means by which the counterpart guide means is pulled against a housing of the lower assembly and, here, the housing of the lower assembly is moved towards the upper assembly such that the at least one electrical counterpart contact component is completely contacted with the at least one contact component.
  • the lower assembly comprises a fixing pin
  • the fixing pin is actuated by the actuation means such that said fixing pin is slid out of the housing of the lower assembly, into a pin receptacle of the upper assembly, oppositely to the movement of the counterpart guide means.
  • the fixing pin at the end of the contacting movement, protrudes into the upper assembly, but nevertheless the counterpart contacting means does not change its position relative to the upper assembly.
  • the actuation means to be formed as a clamping lever, wherein the counterpart guide means is, during the contacting, pulled by the clamping lever into the housing of the lower assembly, and wherein the fixing pin is pushed out of the counterpart guide means in a contacting direction by the clamping lever.
  • FIG 1 shows, in a sectional view, an antenna module 1 which is designed as a vehicle roof antenna module.
  • the antenna module 1 comprises a first, upper assembly 101 and a second, lower assembly 201, wherein the lower assembly 201 has been mounted onto the upper assembly 101 for the purposes of performing a sliding-on movement ASB.
  • the upper assembly 101 comprises electrical contact components 102, 103 and a guide means 104.
  • the lower assembly 201 comprises electrical counterpart contact components 202, 203 (see Figure 2 ) and a counterpart guide means 204. From an initial position P1-201 shown in Figure 1 , the lower assembly 201 is displaceable by means of the sliding-on movement ASB via an intermediate position P2-201 shown in Figure 2 into a central position P3-201 shown in Figure 3 .
  • the counterpart guide means 204 of the lower assembly 201 can be slid, by means of the linear sliding-on movement ASB in a sliding-on direction ASR, onto the guide means 104 of the upper assembly 101 into the central position P3-101 or into a pre-installation position V101 (see Figure 3 ), such that, in the pre-installation position V101, the contact components 102, 103 and the counterpart contact component 202, 203 are situated opposite one another.
  • the lower assembly 201 comprises not only the counterpart contact components 202, 203 and the counterpart guide means 204 but also a housing 205, in which a circuit board 206 is accommodated, an actuation means 207, and a fixing pin 208.
  • the counterpart guide means 204 is formed as a mushroom-head bolt 209 in the manner of a guide bolt, and comprises a head 210.
  • the lower assembly 201 is slid, by way of the head 210 of its counterpart guide means 204, into the guide means 104, formed as an undercut groove 105, of the upper assembly 101, such that the lower assembly 201 is suspended on the guide means 104 of the upper assembly 101.
  • the lower assembly After being fully slid into or slid onto the guide means 104, the lower assembly is situated in the central position P3-201 (see Figure 3 ), in which its counterpart contact components 202, 203 are aligned with the contact components 102, 103 of the upper assembly 101.
  • the housing 205 of the lower assembly 201 can, together with the circuit board 206 and the counterpart contact components 202, 203 arranged on the circuit board, be displaced in a contacting direction KTR with a contacting movement KTB via a further intermediate position P4-201 shown in Figure 4 into an end position P5-201 shown in Figure 5 , and assumes an installation position M201 therein.
  • the counterpart contact components 202, 203 of the lower assembly 201 are slid onto the contact components 102, 103 of the upper assembly 101, such that these are contacted with one another in electrically conductive fashion.
  • the contact components 101, 102 are formed as coaxial plugs, and the counterpart contact components 201, 202 are formed as coaxial bushings.
  • the contacting direction KTR is oriented orthogonally with respect to the sliding-on direction ASR (see Figure 3 ), such that the lower assembly 201 is, with the exception of the counterpart guide means 204, connected or contacted to the upper assembly 101 in an L-shaped movement.
  • the contacting movement KTB is generated by the actuation means 207, by which the counterpart guide means 204 is pulled into a guide channel 211 formed on the housing 205.
  • the actuation means 207 is formed as a clamping lever 212.
  • the clamping lever 212 comprises a lever arm 213, an axle bolt 214, which geometrically defines a pivot axle 215, an eccentric head 216 which is of U-shaped cross section and which has two sliding surfaces 217a, 217b see in particular Figure 4 ) which run eccentrically, at least in sections, with respect to the pivot axle 215, and two eccentric pegs 218 which are arranged opposite one another on the eccentric head 216.
  • the eccentric peg 218 is illustrated in Figure 2 .
  • the second eccentric peg is arranged on the eccentric head 216 opposite the eccentric peg 218, but is concealed in the illustration of Figure 2 by the housing 205.
  • the clamping lever 212 is, by way of its eccentric head 216, connected pivotably to the counterpart guide means 204 by means of the axle bolt 214.
  • the lever arm 213 of the clamping lever 212 can be pivoted from its release position S1-213 shown in Figure 3 via an intermediate position S2-213 shown in Figure 4 into a blocking position S3-213 shown in Figure 5 .
  • the lever arm 213 is guided by way of the eccentric pegs 218 (see Figure 2 ) on the housing 205 of the lower assembly 201 in mutually oppositely situated slotted guides 219a, 219b (see Figures 2 and 5 ), wherein only the slotted guide 219a is visible in Figure 2 , and the second slotted guide 219b, like the second eccentric peg, is concealed by the housing 205.
  • the second slotted guide 219b can be seen in Figure 5 .
  • the clamping lever 212 is guided and supported by way of its eccentric pegs 218 in the slotted guides 219a, 219b of the housing 205. Furthermore, the clamping lever 212 is guided by the counterpart guide means 204, which is displaceable in the guide channel 211 of the housing 205. During the turning-over of the lever arm 213 into the blocking position S3-213, it is then the case, correspondingly to the profile of the slotted guides 219a, 219b, that the counterpart guide means 204 is pulled in the arrow direction y' into the housing 205 of the lower assembly 201.
  • the fixing pin 208 is, by means of the eccentric head 216 rotating about the pivot axle 215, moved in the y direction towards the upper assembly 101, such that the fixing pin 208 protrudes into a pin receptacle 106 of a main body 107 of the upper assembly 101 (see Figures 3 to 5 ).
  • the fixing pin 208 the lower assembly 201 is then, on the upper assembly 101, secured in the installation position M201 so as to be prevented from moving counter to the sliding-on movement ASB, such that corresponding forces do not have to be accommodated by the contact components 102, 103 or the counterpart contact components 202, 203.
  • the fixing pin 208 is guided in a passage bore 221 which is formed in the counterpart guide means 204.
  • the passage bore 221 is formed as a stepped bore 222, which has a shoulder 223
  • the fixing pin 208 is formed as a stepped pin 224, which likewise has a shoulder 225.
  • the lower assembly 201 comprises a spring 226.
  • the spring 226 is arranged in the passage bore 221 between the stated shoulders 223, 225, such that the fixing pin 208 is pushed by the spring 226 in the y' direction in the direction of the clamping lever 212, and the fixing pin 208, in the release position S1-213 of the lever arm 213, protrudes out of the counterpart guide means 204 towards the eccentric head 216 of the clamping lever 212.
  • the eccentric head 216 of the clamping lever 212 acts by way of its sliding surface 217a on the fixing pin 208 and pushes the latter through the counterpart guide means 204 counter to a force of the spring 226 in the y direction in the direction of the upper assembly, such that the fixing pin 208 emerges from the counterpart guide means 204 and protrudes into the pin receptacle 106.
  • Uninstallation of the lower assembly 201 from the upper assembly 101 is performed in the opposite direction to the installation.
  • the clamping lever 212 By virtue of the clamping lever 212 being opened, the housing 205 can move downwards on the counterpart guide means 204 in the arrow direction y' counter to the contacting direction KTR, and the entire lower assembly 201 can subsequently be pulled off the guide means 104 of the upper assembly 101 counter to the sliding-on direction ASR.

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